Wednesday, November 12, 2008

On the Radio Tonight

Come sit with me a spell. Live at 5:30 pm Central Time (6:30 Eastern). At WSOY's Direct Line. The station streams starting at 5:00 pm, when I believe several hundred college students are being highlighted for their work with creating habitats. Then it's me at 5:30 pm.

I'd be delighted if a few friends were going to be in the living room, smiling and nodding.

Sofa for Three at the Louvre, in Napoleon's Apartments. Photo by L.L. Barkat.

It was so good to hear you. You sound so much liked I'd imagined you sound. And you felt so real and honest, like you were sharing with a friend and not on the radio. I loved it! I almost imagined we were having coffee somewhere (with some guy who kept interrupting for questions) ;)

I can't imagine doing something like that...talking into my own phone and knowing that, somewhere, it's on the radio. Then again, I'm skeptical of the phone on a good day. So you're my very cool person for today, for not being afraid of the telephone ;)

Every Square... oh, being an author is more than enough. Radio. Makes me shiver. And you. Make me laugh!

Sarah... really? What a relief. You are right that it's hard to be genuine, talking to thousands of people through a phone line. How I LAUGHED when you said that about the guy who kept interrupting us. :) But, really, wasn't he so deep? I was amazed at how poignantly he approached the whole thing.

He WAS pretty deep...ok, he was deep, deep, deep, and then he'd ask a question that made me wonder if he just didn't get it...and then he'd be deep again. But some of his questions were astounding. And it would be AMAZINGLY funny if we were having coffee and some guy kept asking mostly-good questions ;)

I was going to comment on that awesome Louvre couch, but now I'm thinking, "How much will we have to crane our necks in order to have a conversation? And wherever shall we put our tea cups?"

Still, if it were the living room of a synchronized swimmer from on of those 1940's Hollywood spectaculars, I could see the party she'd host. Everyone would launch off the red velvet at the same time, swirling, diving, reaching for the veggie tray. All in perfect synchronized red velvet Hollywood pizazz.

I missed this - having just now checked your place :0( Is is recorded? Can you put the soundtrack on a post? I really like the sofa for three and the seats are positioned for conversation including all three so one does not feel like "odd man/woman out"

Sojourner... see comment above to Erica. And the couch... perfect example of form wedded to function.

Laure... see comment to Erica. And I'm so sorry I didn't post an alert earlier. See, I actually forgot all about it. Until a few hours before. (hadn't received any confirmation emaill and it had been planned in October :)

L.L.,At last I get to this! It was great to hear you again, and I really like the way you answered, and particularly your thoughts on faith and the difficulty there is in living it out. So very true, and this life is beyond us, but God makes that so. The project to make us like Jesus is way beyond our imaginations, and we're often lost because that ends up being a part of our growth in faith, I take it, somehow.

I hope this gets more interested in your book, and we look forward to your next one to come. But thanks for giving us the heads up on the interview.